Littoral region bans the wearing of burqa

The Governor of the Littoral, Joseph Beti Assomo, has signed a decree banning the full veil (burqa) in his region.

The announcement was made at Edea, capital of the Sanaga Maritime, during the accessing of the regional security and policing committee on Monday, July 20, 2015.

Those who took part in the excercise were; the commander of the second joint military region, the commander of the second region gendarmerie, the regional heads of the various defense and security services, the public prosecutor at the court of appeal for Littoral, prefects of the four departments of the Littoral Region (Sanaga-Maritime, Mungo, Wouri and Nkam).

The full veil ban in the Littoral is a safe measure to prevent possible attacks by terrorists. The decree comes after the double suicide bombing on July 12 in Fotokol by two female suicide bombers who wore a burqa.

In the aftermath of this attack, the governor of the Far North region decided to ban the full veil in that part of Cameroon.

He is the second Prefect to pass the decree after the prefect of the Noun division (West), Donatien Bonyomo, who made the same decision June 29, 2015, ten days after the attacks on N'Djamena, also committed by suicide bombers in burqas .

The prefect of the MiFi (another department of Western Region), Joseph Tangwa Fover, decided to ban the burqa, for the same security reasons, in an order signed July 14. This order concerns the three districts of the MiFi: Bafoussam 1st, 2nd and 3rd.